… The Planetary Solutions Generator offers Yale studentsthe opportunity to participate in a … ideas and possible venturesthat can help mitigate impacts of the climate change crisis. This year, seven teams of studentsspentsix weeks working to generate impactful solutions … to ensure that new construction doesn’t lead to excessive waste through three approaches: Preventing waste Incentivizing stakeholdersto care about excessive waste Repurposing waste …
… Do you wantto enact change and justice for the environment? Are you interested in collaborating with … and Saturday, April 2nd. Organized by members of the Yale Clean Energy Collaborative, thisevent will bring together intelligent and inquisitive minds from acrossthe world to share … people from the Yale community are having in the clean energy sector,” said Nojeim. And don’t miss out on the culminating address from Shalanda Baker, Deputy Director for Energy …
… It’stwo weeks before our finance module launches, and I’m working my way through YouTube … years of my professional career. I’ve lamented to my partner that I’ve used Excel as a donor management database and a way to keep track of who’s attending what webinar next … our different views on emerging technologies, and learn about what drives each of usto do this important climate work. And that is how, on one frigid Sunday morning in January, I …
… About a year into the pandemic, I decided to quit my job and move to Ithaca, N.Y. Atthe time, … climate-tech companies. All that was useful but, soon I realized, notsufficientto take on this challenge. Around the same time, I applied to Yale’s FDCE program. I had learned about … of emissionsthat needed to be mitigated. I wasthen in the process of designing a green building and electrification policy framework while assessing differenttechnologies and …
… One year ago, I was considering whether I should apply to Yale’s Finance and Deployment of Clean Energy program. As an energy … 1: Will the program be helpful to someone already working in the energy field? Hard yes. I don’t have technical expertise, and much of my understanding of energy is contextual. This program does an excellent job of walking through the building blocks acrossthe energy …
… Years ago at an intellectual property law conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Orrin Hatch began his keynote remarks with something like this: Patent lawyers, huh? I’ve met a lot of them over the years, and I can tell you this: … government, automotive, public utilities, NGOs, or the dozens of other backgroundsthat I don’t have space to mention. To paraphrase Harry Truman, optimists are the only ones who get …
… In our sixth, and final, episode of the rural energy series, we talk to organizers, entrepreneurs, and scholarsto understand … how tribal nations are taking back power, both figuratively and literally. Our guest for this episode are Jessica Keetso, organizer atTó Nizhóní Ání, Chéri Smith, founder of …
… A little over a year ago I was introduced to a few co-workers outside my department who I never … With some solid support at work and from home I decided to apply. After being accepted into this year’s cohort I was of course ecstatic but asthe days crept closer to the first class … then... Working, Studying and Trying to Make a Difference On the FDCE Community Building Professional Networks in the Pandemic Era Answersto the Questions of My Younger …
… I’m a current (2021-2022) FDCE cohortstudent, and I wantto be completely honest with you aboutthe … groups and competed in a game to solve the most linguistic riddles. Atthe time I thought, “This is fun. My grandpa loved working these puzzles with me. But, how isthis going to help … like a big deal. And in the industry, it is. But if that were the course conclusion, I don’tthink an Excel document would make me even conversant on project finance, let alone …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale lecturer Peter Boyd posed the seemingly simple question “Why are you here?” This got me to thinking, what had gotten me to this program, to this place? As a lifelong … my community and sanctuary for over half my life. I started as a junior camp counselor, eventually working my way up to lead my own beekeeping classes for high schoolers. When my …